On 5/15/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I move everything to a new partition without breaking things?
>
> 1) Boot into a Live CD (your Red Hat rescue CD, perhaps?)
> 2) Then mount all the appropriate volumes, read/write.
> 3) cp -av /partition/original/* /partition/new/
> 4) You'll have to re-edit grub.conf now.
>
> These instruction courtesy of Gus Wirth.
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/hde
>
> FYI, have you discovered yet " fdisk -l "? Handy for this kind of thing.
Note that your 160GB drive is built with two platters, and 4 heads
(top and bottom of each). Physical failure inside the drive mechanism
does not know to confine itself to a software-generated partition. So
copying your data from one partition to another on the same platter,
to be read by the same head, does not necessarily preserve it.
This was easier to understand back in the days of 2.5MB platters, a
factor of 16000 smaller.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
